Since Whitney Houston’s tragic and untimely death, the public has gotten to know heretofore private family members such as Pat Houston, who is married to Whitney’s brother and served as a trusted manager of the singer’s career. She will express her sense of loss, her love and memories of Whitney Houston in the closing pages of this book. Clive Davis, the legendary music industry mogul who guided her career will open the book with his reflections on the star. While in between, the photographic work and words of famed photographer Randee St. Nicholas will show what it was like for Randee and the other photographers featured in this book to work with one of the greatest singers in the world who was also one of the great beauties of the world.
29-year-old Hope Reed didn't pull the trigger. But a simple choice landed her behind bars, and now she is literally fighting for her life. After her car broke down, Hope accepted a ride from two neighbourhood thugs. Later they were pulled over and arrested for a deadly convenience store robbery - and Hope was arrested too. Brendon Reed stood by his wife after her arrest. He took out a second mortgage on their house and wiped out the family's savings for her defence, but now years have passed and Hope's chances of acquittal are beginning to look grim.
Felicia Spears is the epitome of a woman scorned. Nothing is right in her life since her ex left, and she blames him for all of her misery. Felicia has every right to be bitter and angry. In the early days, she made incredible sacrifices to help ensure Cooper's success. And it seemed the moment his star began to rise, Felicia was replaced. Now, she's hell-bent on getting what she feels she deserves, especially since that means tearing down Cooper's new life.
Now’s your chance to sample a few chapters of the hottest book coming out this season from Pat Tucker—SIDELINE SCANDALS—for a limited time only—for FREE! Sasha Davenport started the Football Widows social club as a way to provide options for women who feel abandoned during the season. After joining the Football Widows Club, the women realize there is life outside the huddle. But they also learn that all the members have scandalous secrets which threaten to ruin the star-studded lives they all enjoy. Behind the club's facade, there's so much infighting among the members they often seem to be playing for opposing teams—and these Football Widows will provide enough drama during the season that it doesn't take long before they begin to compete with the action on the field.
Roxanne's husband, Parker Redman, is shocked when he's arrested for delinquent child support, especially since the devoted husband hasn't fathered any children. The Parkers' best friends, James and Serena, are in the final stages of a bitter divorce. Just when James thinks his nightmare is over, he learns his daughter has a different daddy. For the love of money, single mom Lachez Baker is a ghetto-fabulous mother of three who seems to have it all, thanks to money from her children's fathers. But soon, her life of designer clothes, endless parties, and steady cash collides with the man who's been the target of her carefully crafted paternity fraud. From author Pat Tucker comes a drama-filled tale of lies, schemes and consequences as these men discover the importance of knowing the paternity laws in your state.
Parker Redman, after being forced to pay child support for a child that is not his, is now an advocate for fathers who are being unfairly hurt by the system, but a fed-up Serena is about to blow the lid off his hustle.
The life of an NFL coach's wife has its advantages, but B.J. Almond has had enough. When she walks in on her husband in bed with an assistant coach's wife, she is livid - especially when she discovers the other coaches' wives knew about the affair all along. Now B.J. is furious and hungry for revenge. And what better way to pay them back than to air everyone's dirty laundry in a juicy, tell-all book! She doesn't hold back, and neither do the other football wives, who will go to any extreme to keep their dirty secrets from going public.
Pat Williams has known the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat--both on the sidelines of the basketball court and in his personal life. In this engaging look at his life and career, he tells of big-name players, multimillion dollar deals, and nail-biting playoffs during his rise from minor league wunderkind to general manager of an NBA championship team. He also tells of his heart-crushing divorce and his battle with cancer. In Ahead of the Game he offers readers ten principles for success that will inspire them to live a winning life despite their challenges.
Sasha Davenport is riding her popular Football Widows social club all the way to the top. She's got the right look, the high-profile job and a glamorous public image that belies all her previous salacious activities. Tatayna Bacall has been faking enthusiasm for the game for too long. Now she wants her star quarterback husband to find a job as a sports analyst. Joining the Football Widows Club gives her hope that there is life outside the huddle. But she'll soon learn that Sasha and the other club members have scandalous secrets that threaten to ruin their lives.
Based on true, yet unbelievable, events, Guarding Secrets is the story of the extreme power one prisoner wields, not only over his fellow inmates, but also over the female correctional officers who guard him. DaQuan is in jail, but he is no ordinary inmate. He runs one of the most powerful prison gangs in the state of Texas. And that gang is selling all kinds of contraband, from pills, to cell phones, and quality liquor, all smuggled in by a dedicated team of corrupt correctional officers. Correctional Officer KenyaTaye Dunbar knows very little about the extent of DaQuan’s power in the free world, but she does know that what she feels is real love. Whether it is mind-blowing sex in prison closets, paying her rent, or buying her a new BMW, DaQuan takes better care of her than most of the men she has been with on the outside. But all of that was before Correctional Officer Charisma Jones started working at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Jester unit and started flirting with DaQuan. Now KenyaTaye is pregnant with DaQuan’s second child but is being replaced as his right hand. Soon, she decides revenge is the only way to make DaQuan and Charisma pay for her misery. But will the revenge cost more than KenyaTaye is willing to pay, or will she keep guarding secrets?
Ken and Pat were in their sixties when they discovered each other on an online dating site. Each was looking for a friend to spend some time with; they could not imagine the events they would come to experience together as they began their relationship. In A Journey of Love and Miracles, they tell the story of how they met and got engaged, and how Pat's cancer diagnosis changed the course of their love affair and their lives. This is a story of faith, love, and miracles that should be shared with others who face cancer, its prognosis, treatment, and the aftermath. They have chosen to share their journey through years of cancer diagnosis and treatment to provide hope and help to cancer patients and their families. Since the beginning of their time together, they have been faced with the insidious disease of cancer. Their story is proof that life can go on, full of love and friendship. For patients, families, and friends, the Birts share numerous helpful suggestions that have grown out of their journey together. In A Journey of Love and Miracles, Ken and Pat Birt recall their inspiring life experiences, complete with fears and difficult decisions and tempered with love, support, joy, and miracles.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. Praise for My Losing Season “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald
Acclaimed authors Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack have collaborated with their son, John, to deliver a novel that is as suspenseful as it is searing. "The Clone Codes" is the first installment of a sci-fi trilogy that blends a futuristic society with events in world history.
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